[148777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Jan 22 17:08:56 2012
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:08:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick B" <nick@pelagiris.org>
> I'm about 90% sure that in a fair court, it would be concluded that
> disabling the reported URL qualifies as disabling access to the
> material.
> The court might then issue an injunction to, in the future, disable
> *all* *possible* access to the material, but that's not the current text of
> the law. YMMV
I believe we're all conflating 2 separate and, really, disparate things:
1) what does the law actually require and is that realistic?
2) how were MU actually behaving, and does that relieve The Law of cutting
them any slack?
The former isn't really affected by the latter; it can still be unreasonable,
even if that is *not* the reason why MU proper won't be getting cut any
slack which might exist.
Cheers,
-- jra
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